Tag: Michael-Heiser

  • What the Image of God Actually Is, and What It Means to Be an Imager

    What the Image of God Actually Is, and What It Means to Be an Imager

    Ask most people what the image of God is and you’ll hear the same answer: our reason, our conscience, the divine spark inside us. It sounds right, and it does not survive contact with the text. What replaces it is bigger, stranger, and far more useful.

  • How I Study the Bible

    How I Study the Bible

    I am not a seminary graduate. What I have is a large library, years of reading, and forty years of wrestling with a God I could not fully explain. Here is how the work actually gets done.

  • Divine Council Inventory: Heavenly Beings and Fallen Entities

    Divine Council Inventory: Heavenly Beings and Fallen Entities

    The Old Testament presents a populated heavenly realm, beings of various ranks, roles, and alignments operating within Yahweh’s cosmic order. In Heiser’s divine council framework, these aren’t poetic metaphors. They’re real entities with real functions, some faithful, some in rebellion.

  • What Is a King? The Room Defines the King (1 of 6)

    What Is a King? The Room Defines the King (1 of 6)

    Kingliness is not generated by the king. It is generated by the room. The bowing, the lowered eyes, the held breath, the way bodies rearrange in space. A 2026 American has nothing to fill the word with, and that is the problem.